My personal recommendation that has been working for me (although there are other options that for some people might be better)

NewPipe for videos

Metrolist for music and podcasts

Librewolf does that by default, among other things. And as thanksforallthefish mentioned, in settings you can whitelist some pages to prevent cookie deletion, if you want to remain logged in.

None of this is especially complicated

It is for an absolute noob like me… i need vacation so i can start learning all this networking jargon.

Thank you for sharing though!

very kind of you, thank you :)

probably bc im stupid and didnt realize I have set it to turn wifi off automatically if it stays disconnected from any router for 10min

Is this why my GOS phone does not connect back to my home wifi every time i leave and come back?